Wednesday, November 29, 2006

IZArc

IZArc

IZArc is a full featured archiving tool that you can use to open and create compressed files in many different formats. It offers many advanced features, including repairing of broken archives, searching within archives, password protecting, emailing of archives and much more. The program provides an Explorer style interface with integrated file browser, favorites, customizable toolbar and color coded file listings. Additional features include Windows Explorer integration, anti-virus integration and just about anything else you would expect to find in a professional archive utility - but this one is free. IZArc support most popular archive formats, including 7-ZIP, ACE,ARC, ARJ,BH, BZ2, CAB, DEB, GZ,HA, JAR, LHA, LZH,PAK, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR,TGZ, TZ, ZIP and ZOO. The program is easy to use, even for beginners, yet powerful enough to provide advanced users with all the tools you need.
Download IZArc version 3.6 Build 1260
IZArc Command Line Add-On version 1.0 Build 120

ALZIP, WinRAR, 7-ZIP

ALZIP

ALZIP: For all your file compression needs, ALZip opens virtually every archive format imaginable. From ALZ and ACE to ZIP and ZOO, it even opens CD images too. Lost a ZIP password? Get it back with the ALZip password recovery tool. Create SFX files with cute ALZip icons, manage your ZIP and archive files with the intuitive ALZip explorer interface, and create or extract archives in 2 clicks.  Download ALZIP.

WinRAR

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, an archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can. WinRAR's main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, ZIP compression and decompression, support for long filenames, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), repair of damaged archives, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and encryption. WinRAR can convert other archive formats to RAR and search for specified text and files in archives.
Download WinRAR 3.61 RAR 3.60 for Pocket PC RAR 3.60 for Linux  RAR 3.60 for FreeBSD
RAR 3.60 for Mac OS X RAR 3.60 for MS DOS

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, CPIO, ISO, NSIS, RPM, DEB, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, and Z formats. The compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30 percent to 50 percent better than the ratio in the ZIP format. Also, 7-Zip compresses to the ZIP format 2 percent to 10 percent better than PKZip and WinZip. 7-Zip has an additional powerful command-line version. Version 4.42 has speed optimizations, ISO and NSIS support.
 
Download 7-Zip 4.42 for Windows.
Download 7-Zip 4.43 beta for Windows.